Publishing Pipelines

Publishing makes a Pipeline available outside the editor. Choose a publishing surface based on who or what needs to run the Pipeline.

Choose a publishing surface

• Agentic Tool -- use when a custom agent should call the Pipeline during a conversation in Ask Salt. Publishing does not attach the Agentic Tool to a custom agent automatically.
• API -- use when another application should execute the Pipeline through a stable, authenticated endpoint.
• Web Form -- use when signed-in users should provide inputs, run the Pipeline, and view its outputs from a page with a shareable URL.

Before you publish

Open the Pipeline in the editor and select Publish. The Publish page shows the Agentic Tool, API, and Web Form surface buttons that are enabled for your account.

Agentic Tool publishing requires a prior successful Pipeline run, a name, and a description. API and Web Form publishing require the latest run to complete successfully; a Web Form also requires at least one configured output.

Published snapshots

Publishing captures a point-in-time version of the Pipeline for the selected surface. An Agentic Tool snapshots the current saved graph, while an API or Web Form snapshots its qualifying run. Later Pipeline edits do not change the live surface; publish again when you want callers to use those changes.

Next steps